A special screening dedicated to the birthday of cinema will show three experimental films made using material from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam. The highlight of the programme will be Peter Delpeut's Lyrical Nitrate (1991), which poetically combines various scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915. It not only showcases the rich spectrum of silent film techniques, mise-en-scene, acting and colour, but also draws attention to the influence of time on the materiality of cinema itself: the film's visual leitmotif is the enchanting effects that blossom, like flowers, as film undergoes decomposition. Alongside it, two short works of a kindred spirit will be screened - The Liquidator (dir. Karel Doing, 2010) and Under the Sign of Saturn (Act 1) (dir. Alexandra Navrtil, 2018) - which use digital manipulation to highlight the dramas of the decay of early cinema films. Nitrate in this context is the nitrate cellulose-based film stocks that were widely used in the film industry until the middle of the 20th century.  This type of film is highly flammable and contact with water or moisture uniquely affects the film emulsion layer during decomposition. In February 1895, the Lumière brothers patented the sinematograph, an invention that could not only record but also project an image from film. In March of the same year, the first private screening of their film "The Workers' Exit from the Factory" took place, and is now accepted as the beginning of cinema history. The First Wave Early Cinema Festival invites you to celebrate this event symbolically. Organised by First Wave Films with Lithuanian subtitles. With Lithuanian subtitles.